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Adventurer Eric Weicht paddles the Mississippi from Minnesota to Memphis

Eric Weicht is a former Cook County resident known for adventuring on bodies of water. He chats here with Will Moore about his most recent trip--canoeing down the Mississippi from northern Minnesota to Memphis through the month of November.

MN90: The Maidens and the Cult Leader

Victor Barnard was not only a religious leader but Jesus in the flesh. That’s what he told his followers in rural Pine County. Now he wanted them to offer up their first-born daughters to be his maidens. Because that’s what God wanted. Here’s Britt Aamodt.

MN90: Elk River’s Secret Chef

Josh Walbolt lost his restaurant job in the COVID pandemic and found himself working for DoorDash. It paid the bills. But he had other irons in the fire. And one would pan out when Hulu’s Secret Chef came calling. Here’s Britt Aamodt.

Mn90: Hey, Hey, He’s a Monkee

1963 – Peter Thorkelson flunked out of Carleton College in Northfield for the second time. He’d been more interested in music and drama than his English Literature studies. What was he going to do now? He changed his name to Peter Tork and, in 1966, won an audition to play the member of a fictional rock band in the sitcom The Monkees. Here’s Britt Aamodt.

MN90: Jam and Lewis Scream

1993 – Minneapolis producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis had given Janet Jackson her first platinum albums. Now they were going back in the studio with Janet and her superstar brother Michael for the siblings’ first-ever duet, “Scream.” Here’s Britt Aamodt.

MN90: About a Cellist

In 2001, Walker Art Center curator Joan Rothfuss had a light bulb moment. Not about a visual artist. But about an experimental cellist, Charlotte Moorman, now mostly forgotten. But Rothfuss would try to right that wrong with her sudden inspiration: She would write Moorman’s biography. Here’s Britt Aamodt.

Superior Reads – Carolyn O’Donoghue

In this edition of Superior Reads, Lin Salisbury talks with NY Times best-selling author Carolyn O’Donoghue about her novel “The Rachel Incident”.

Painted turtles

Chel Anderson is a botanist and plant ecologist and she joins us periodically to report on what she’s seeing in our woods and waters right now.

MHB – VARIETY SHOW

Host, Carl Unbehaun, presents a cavalcade of songs by Minnesota songwriters along with his musical musings! Lots of variety on this episode, including tunes by Aaron Tank, Walzing On Waves, Sarah Morris, Cole Diamond and more. Plus we report on the continuing fall of Budweiser–all on MHB.

(Aired 8/10/2023)

Counter Stories: Legislative Wrap Up, A Carbon Free Minnesota

In this year’s Legislative Wrap-Up, the crew discusses the 100% Carbon-Free Electricity by 2040 requiring utilities offer customers 100% carbon-free electricity by 2040. The discussion includes equity in climate change efforts, opportunities for Minnesotans to incorporate clean energy in their everyday life, and how more education of these topics is needed in our community. Dr. Brenda Casselius and Anjali Bains, Fresh Energy


Kezar Music Showroom Presents: The Skally Line

Featuring music and stories of Minnesota history by The Skally Line, recorded live at Floyd B. Olson Park, Thief River Falls, MN.


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